More Links

Hayes Has Career Game; Bantams Roll in Opener

from press release

Hartford, Conn. – Sophomore midfielder
Caroline Hayes (Greenland, N.H.) tallied a career-high eight points
with five goals and three assists to lead the Trinity College
Bantams to a 17-8 victory over the visiting Montclair State
University Red Hawks in the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse
Championship First Round this evening on Sheppard Field. The
defending NCAA Champion Bantams improve to 18-0 with their
College-record 26th consecutive win, and advance to the NCAA Second
Round this weekend. Montclair State closes its season at 15-5. The
NCAA Second Round and Quarterfinals will take place on Saturday,
May 11 and Sunday, May 12 on Sheppard Field. The Bantams face the
winner of tonight's game between Redlands and Augustana (Ill.) on
Saturday, while Eastern Connecticut plays College of New Jersey and
Colby plays Lasell this evening with the winners advancing to the
second round in Hartford.

"Our performance was great at times and we hit some lulls at
other points during the game," said Trinity Head Coach Kate Livesay
(7th Season). "We converted our free positions, and maintained our
composure against a feisty Montclair State team."

Trinity led wire-to-wire, wasting no time getting on the board
on the first shot of the game's first possession by junior attacker
Shea Kusiak (Longmeadow, Mass.) 22 seconds into the contest to
ignite a 4-0 run. Hayes scored 2:04 into the game, followed by a
goal by senior tri-captain midfielder Megan Leonhard (Summit,
N.J.), and Hayes fed senior attacker Hadley Duncan (Rye, N.Y.) at
the 22:15 mark to complete the spurt. Sophomore midfielder Jenna
Bussiere (Dayton, N.J.) netted the first Montclair State goal 12:08
into the first half, and Hayes traded goals with Red Hawk senior
tri-captain attacker Kailee Beal (Succasunna, N.J.) to make the
score, 5-2, just after the midpoint of the opening period. The
Bantams rattled off five of the last six goals before the break,
including the last two by Hayes. Trinity first-year midfielder
Martha Griffin (Exeter, N.H.) assisted a streaking Hayes for the
last tally of the first half with one second on the clock.

Duncan scored from Hayes to open the second half, answered by
the second of Beal's three scores in the game, but rookie attacker
Molly Cox (Norwell, Mass.) scored twice and Hayes once on free
positions for a 14-4 Bantam lead with 16:24 left to play. The Red
Hawks outscored the Bantams, 4-3, over the last half of the second
half, including three Montclair State goals off assists by
sophomore attacker Tierney Conlon (Caldwell, N.J.).

Trinity outshot Montclair State, 33-13, won the ground ball
battle, 16-10, and won 16 of 26 draws while forcing 23 turnovers
and committing 16. The teams combined for eight free-position goals
in 17 tries, and Trinity scored three goals with an extra player.
Leonhard scored four times for Trinity, while both Cox and Duncan
had hat tricks, and senior attacker Kaitlin Hildebrand (Berwyn,
Pa.) finished with a goal and two assists for the Trinity offense.
Hayes added three ground balls and three draw controls to her eight
points, while senior tri-captain defender Mallory Hinman
(Longmeadow, Mass.) collected three ground balls, three draw
controls, and a game-high three caused turnovers, and senior
tri-captain goalie Olivia Whitney (Danvers, Mass.) made a pair of
saves including a point-blank stop late in the first half. Conlon
finished with four assists for the Red Hawks, while junior
midfielder Kelly Schoneveld (Denville, N.J.) added two goals and
one assist to go with her game-high seven draw controls. Montclair
State senior backstop Tiffani Henderson (Landing, N.J.) made 10
saves.

"Mallory
Hinman was big for us defensively today, breaking up plays and
bothering their attacker," added Livesay. "Caroline Hayes did a
nice job finishing for us against an excellent
goalie."